PLEASURE AND PEACE When does pleasure become a vice? When you depend upon it for all your joy and all your sustenance. When you are no longer free from attachment as you enjoy pleasure, it becomes your vice. How can you change your pains into pleasures? When pain is accepted like the rubbing of a sandal on a pilgrim's foot, a stone on the pathway, and like the weariness that comes to all things lesser on the way to reaching all things higher; then your pain becomes your pleasure. A large bird snatches a wriggling worm from a little bird's mouth; the little bird's helpless lack of freedom is its pain. The same bird pecks another worm, fl ies to its nest, and a tiny baby mouth snatches the worm; then it is the mother's. pleasure. Hold fast to what is destined to be lost and you are in pain; lose it of your own accord and your joy is abundant. I wish you this day the true knowledge of dependence and freedom and the discernment of pain from pleasure. ts I wish you that true pleasure and peace. Without attracting plagiarism completely reframe siting similar examples and prompt a thread to share on Twitter | Start Chat
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